In this course so far we have learned a lot about the history of the Internet. Some of the interesting facts that I did not previously know was that in the late 60's 4 universities were networked together to test what we now know today to be the Internet. I had assumed the government was behind the start of a worldwide network which was true when the military needed a system of transferring information that couldn't be attacked by our enemies. But I did not know that this would be tested by education facilities before being released to the consumer in the early 90's.
It was interesting to see the timeline of when ideas came about. Being born in 1983, I actually remember some of these technology breakthrough's such as the GUI. I remember using a commodore computer as a child and having to run programs using ms-dos before operating systems such as Windows were released. Also from when I was a child I remember experiencing slow Internet connections such as dial-up and it is nice to appreciate the speed we have in the present such as cable Internet and fiber optic networks.
The facebook discussions were nice because we get to communicate with each other on different views of technology. Its nice to hear peoples thoughts which I know people sometimes have a hard time sharing in classrooms. It was also nice to get a heads up on some of the growing technology I have not yet heard about. I shared with the group information I had found about a new project known as google glass. You can see the post and the article below.
The Top 7 Technology Trends That Will Dominate 2014
I feel that I put in most of the time needed for this lesson as I have attended all classes, done the reading and even used the information relative towards other classes. I did very well on the quiz, took the time to learn the blackboard learn system and even participated in the facebook discussion. Although with the facebook discussion I could have payed a little more attention to the task at hand. I made a post introducing a new topic but even after reading the remaining discussion I failed to include myself by commenting on others. In the future I will make sure this does not happen again.
New Terminology
B2C - Business to Consumer
B2B - Business to Business
B2E - Business to Employer
C2C - Consumer to Consumer
Protocol - Standard or a set of rules
TCP - Transmission Control Protocol
HTML - Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
VPN - Virtual Private Network
ARPANET - Advanced Research Projects Agency
